Dear OHANA Friends,
Almost a year in the making, BUILDING OHANA has a new website that we hope will inform, inspire and involve you. The old site, active since 2015 is archived and put away. In some ways I’ll miss it…like an old friend. But now as we approach the end of 2021 with land acquisition in sight and a much of the cost of it our pockets, the time seems right to talk more boldly about what we’re working to accomplish every day.
OHANA works to develop diverse and inclusive communities of Intentional Neighboring to help people of all abilities, ages, and backgrounds to thrive. We align our design and development strategies with our social purposes, making each aspect of home and environment integral to our goals of diversity, inclusion, and social connection. We explore new approaches to building accessible, healthy and sustainable homes designed for all people through the life course. We innovate new strategies to fund high-quality housing for people of every income. And, we build strong, lasting, mutually beneficial OHANA relationships with the broader community.
The creation of OHANA Village in Spokane requires working on all of these puzzle pieces at the same time because they form the template for one simple idea: we are better, stronger, healthier, happier when we are together rather than separate. As we form a community upon this idea—a diverse, inclusive, connected community of homes and neighbors—three critical components of Intentional Neighboring will guide our way of life, especially as we focus on including and supporting those residents living with a range of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Watch the video below for more on this…
Thanks for joining us! We can’t build OHANA without you.
Deb Finck
Executive Director
